Sadiron



S. ELMAN.

SADIRON.

APPLICATION HLE-D APR. 6, 1917. 1 349,052. P ented Aug. 10, 1920.

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SAMUEL ELMAN, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

SADIRON.

Application filed April 6, 1917. Serial No.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL ELMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Sadiron, of which the following is a specification.

In clothing factories and in pressing establishments, the pressing of garments 1s effected by various expensive apparatus especially designed for this purpose. These various forms of apparatus have means for ejecting the steam through the ironing face of the apparatus. consist of specially constructed flat irons or sad irons. All of these'apparatus and the specially constructed sad irons are a source of great initial expense to the manufacturer.

y invention has for its object a particularly simple and eflicient constructlon by which the ordinary tailors sad iron canin a particularly simple and efficient manner be provided with steam ejecting means and adapted to perform the work of the specially constructed irons and apparatus; and the invention consists in the combinations and constructions hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In describing thisinvention, reference is had to the accompanying drawings in which like characters designate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a side elevation, partly broken away, of a sad iron embodying my invention, the contiguous portions of a rest for being also shown.

Flg. 2 is a face view of the ironing face of the sad iron.

y invention comprises generally, a sad iron having a hollow body inclosing a heat ing chamber, and a steam pipe extending through the body and the heating chamber, and communicating with a perforation which opens through the ironing face of the iron in the rear of the point in the longitudinal central line of said face.

1 designates the hollow body inclosing the heating chamber 2. 3 is the handle mounted on the detachable top plate 4 which is secured on the hollow body in any suitable manner.

5 is the gas chamber with which the as pipe 6 communicates, the pipe extending into the gas chamber 5 through the shank of the handle in'any suitable manner. The

Specification of Letters Patent.

Some of these apparatus placed.

periods as when Patented Aug. 10, 1920. 160,097.

far described, the construction is the usual tailors sad iron.

8 is a single perforation in the bottom of the sad pipe WlllCll extends downwardly through the hollow body at its lower end with a pipe 10 extending through the heating chamber 2, and the gas chamber 5 through the top plate and having a nipple at its end for connection to a flexible pipe not shown which communicates with a suitable source of steam supply as a boiler. The end of the pipe 10 inserted in the perforation 8 is contracted or partly closed by a plug 11 having a jet opening 12 therethrough.

is ironis particularly adapted to be used in factories manufacturing clothing, and is designed to be used in connection with that type of machine having a swinging arm carrying the heated iron over an ironing board or buck on which the garment is In operation, the arm is swung to carry e iron over the garment, the operator taking hold of the handle of the sad iron and guiding the iron over the garment.

he iron in general use, is the ordinary sad iron but the operator is not only fatigued by exerting pressure on the iron but he also takes emitting steam is employed. The irons ejecting steam now used are used in connection with a specially constructed machine or are themselves of special construction.

his invention is particularly advantageous in that the ordinary sad iron with which pressing or ironing machines are now equipped and w ich are in general use in clothing factor1es, can be quickly and readil provided with a steam ejecting means which work more efliciently than the specially constructed irons, and further as the steam is concentrated into asingle jet and passes through a steam pipe extending through the hot hollow body of the iron, the steam is heated and dried just before it is ejected into the garment.

hen the iron is not in use, the steam is more time than when an iron turned off but when not in use for short I the operator is arranging the garment on the buck, it is placed on a rest having a funnel 13 into which the steam cured in said opening, the upper end of the 10 discharges. pipe extending outside of the hollow body What I claim is: for connection to a steam supply, substan- A sad iron including a hollow body havtially as and for the purpose described.

ing a heating chamber therein. and a per- In testimony whereof, I have hereunto foration opening through the ironing face signed m name, at Syracuse, in the county 15 of the body and into the chamber. and a of Onon aga and State of New York, this pipe extending through the hollow body and 18th day of January, 1917. the chamber and having its lower end se- SAMUEL ELMAN. 

